Christopher Penn and Antonio Evans
College Hill Courts homicideA woman knelt down at a curb Tuesday afternoon, about a foot from where Terry Glenn Parker Jr. lay the night before.
“That’s my only son!” Crystal Greer, 44, yelled in front of a makeshift memorial of balloons and stuffed animals. “They killed my only son!”
Around 8:20 p.m. Monday, 19-year-old Antonio Xavier Evans and 21-year old Christopher Jerod Penn met Parker on the sidewalk in front of College Hill Courts apartments, near the corner of Boynton Drive and Grove Street. Evans and Penn shot Parker, 23, several times before running away, Chattanooga police say. By the time officers arrived, Parker was dead.
Police charged Evans with first-degree murder, criminal conspiracy, aggravated assault and possession of a firearm while in commission to commit a felony. Officers are holding him at the Hamilton County Jail, and a judge set his bond at $1.2 million. Police charged Penn with first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy, and he is in jail in lieu of a $600,000 bond.
In the past three years, Penn has pleaded guilty to trespassing, theft, criminal impersonation, public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Evans, meanwhile, has been arrested twice for trespassing and once for unlawful weapon possession. Those cases are still open.